Averageannualrainfall N-Ghana 5 year moving average ... In this section, I will test the hypothesis that migration propensities increase in times of environmental stress. Figure 6 shows the trend in annualrainfall in NorthernGhana. The ...ghana

Figure 1 Rainfall, grain prices and malnutrition in northernGhana, 1988 (a) Rainfall (b) Millet prices Cedis / kg millet Millimetres Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec ... and malnutrition remained just as evident. The main rainy season in northernGhana is June ... The causal linkages between seasonality and hunger were observed in northernGhana by a British Provincial Commissioner as long ago as 1911. "No-one who has been

where max(0, θ y − yi ) is the district loss schedule. We use annual corn yield data from 1998 to 2004  from 12 districts in the Northern Region of Ghana. We first compute the individual district correlation coefficient between rainfall

(Janicot et al., 2008), especially in the northern Sahel, the annualrainfall ﬁnally ... notably in the A¨r region (second half of ı August) and in northern Togo and Ghana ... but this was not compensated by above-normal rainfall in August, so that the annual anomaly was strongly